Defence giant BAE Systems was today fined £500,000 for failing to keep proper records of the payments it made to an African businessman to help it win a £25 million contract to install radar in Tanzania.

On October 23, 2003, while giving birth to my first child, I narrowly avoided becoming a maternal mortality statistic. The complication I experienced — postpartum haemorrhage — contributes to the majority of maternal deaths around the world each year.